Hermann Frank Meyer
Hermann Frank Meyer (born September 26, 1940 in Hanover ; † April 12, 2009 in Riepholm ) was a German entrepreneur and publicist.
Meyer grew up in Dorfmark and trained as a foreign trade clerk in Hamburg . After stays abroad in Spain, France, Switzerland, Nigeria and the USA, he lived in Brussels from 1966 . Meyer managed the European branch of a US company there. In 1968 he was one of the co-founders of the Belgian Amnesty International . From 1980 he built up his own machine tool company.
From the beginning of the 1990s, Meyer dealt with the history of the German mountain troops and the German occupation in Greece from 1941 to 1945. Meyer was inspired by the fate of his father, who was abducted and killed by Greek partisans in 1943 as a first lieutenant in the Wehrmacht . He had turned down an offer to exchange in order not to let his comrades down. Meyer published books on the Greek struggle for freedom, the Kommeno massacre and the war crimes of the 117th Jäger Division in Serbia and Greece and worked on TV documentaries. In 2002 he became an honorary citizen of the municipality of Kommeno, Greece. In 2005 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit at the instigation of Federal President Johannes Rau .
Meyer was married with two children and was a long-distance runner and triathlete in his spare time . He died in a bicycle accident near his birthplace.
Publications
- Bloody edelweiss. The 1st Mountain Division in World War II . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-447-1 ( online )
- From Vienna to Kalavryta: the bloody trail of the 117th Jäger Division through Serbia and Greece . Bibliopolis, Möhnesee / Mannheim 2002, ISBN 3-933925-22-3
- Kommeno: narrative reconstruction of a Wehrmacht crime in Greece . Romiosini, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-929889-34-X
- Missing in Greece: Fates in the Greek struggle for freedom 1941–1944 . Frieling, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89009-376-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Frank Meyer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage
- Obituary for Hermann Frank Meyer. Archived from the original on April 15, 2013 ; Retrieved July 5, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hermann Frank Meyer died . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 14, 2009.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Hermann Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 2009 |
| Place of death | at Dorfmark |